Strategy for Tanks
Whether or not Trump wanted anything when dealing with the Ukrainian President Valodomyr Zelensky in the 2019 do us a favor, though phone call (the basis for President Trump's first impeachment hearing), it is completely clear what Zelensky wanted.
He wanted Javelins. He kept slipping it in there.In the same way that the longbow changed medieval war at Agincourt, the Javelin missile threatens to upset the old war paradigm that was based on the might of the battle tank. The Javelin is light, and can be carried by a team of two (one, if necessary) on foot. If the gunner can get a visual lock on the target from four kilometers away, he can let off a shot and then scramble for cover. Meanwhile, the missile guides itself to rear up and then attack the top-armor of the tank, at its weakest. In 2018, Ukraine got its first consignment of 37 launchers and 210 missiles. It wanted many more!
As the Trump phone call illustrates, Zelensky was desperate to stockpile Javelins. Ukraine’s tactics were to fight from as far away from their invaders as possible.